"What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people."

-- Walter Dean Myers

#Stress Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jan 13, 2013
“As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional”
“Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...”

Source : Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.124, Broadview Press
“I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.”
“Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.”
“The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.”
“It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.”
“I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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